Ohio State coach Urban Meyer has only lost 23 games in his head coaching career (he’s 117-23 overall) and Rocky Long was the cause of one of those ‘L’s.

Long’s New Mexico team beat Meyer’s Utah team 47-35 in 2003.

Meyer remembers the game, and willingly admits that Long’s defense got the better of his offense.

“They got after us pretty good, and our defense took a beating on that day that I’m not sure our defense has ever taken before,” Meyer said. “(Long) has a very creative, disruptive style of defense and that hasn’t changed now. I have a lot of respect for him as a head coach.”

Long, however, won’t take credit for having beaten Meyer.

“That’s a fallacy, that we out-schemed them,” Long said. “It’s funny how different coaches see those things differently. I have yet to see a coach win a football game… Players have to execute your schemes. I didn’t have anything to do with beating Urban Meyer that day, that was all the players.”